Teaching crisis gets personal

1:28 PM,
Nov. 7, 2013

Written by

Betsey Russell
OPINION

It's one thing to talk in the abstract about North Carolina being 46th in teacher pay. It's another thing when your seventh grade daughter brings home a letter from a 10-year veteran teacher at her school explaining that it has become financially untenable for him to support his family and that he is leaving to find work in another state. Just to be clear, this is an excellent language arts and social studies teacher. My daughter says he's great at making language arts interesting, which isn't easy. And his departure in the middle of the school year leaves a great void that ...